The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-23
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

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Sugar Cookies. One and one-half
cups sugar. one cup butter, one cup
sour cream. one egg, one teaspoon
soda, one teaspoon baking-powder;
mix soft Boston Budget.
Before going into fruit culture find
out what varieties your land is best
adapted to produce, and give those
varieties the preference. Situation as
well as soil adaptation should be con-
sidered. Troy Times.
Ducks usually begin to lay in Feb
ruary, and until that time they may be
kept at but little expense. Cooked
turnips, with a small amount of corn
meal, make good food for them. After
they begin to lay they should have
proportion of animal food Iladidndp-
obs Journal
Uncle Smeon's Brown Bread
Two quarts Indian meal, one quart
rye, half cupful molasses, two tea
spoonfuls salt. one teaspoonful sal
aratus, one eupful yeast. Make as stifl
as can be stirred with spoon, with
warm water Let rise over night.
Bake five or six hours. Toledo Blade.
Every additional pound of flesh
that can be added to the carcass
proportionally lessons the cost of the
whole, with the same amount of food.
The more comfortable the animal is
kept the more rapidly it will increase.
Shelter and warmth represent food, as
they save. that to create which food is
required. ST. Louis Republican.
Field mice will work very badly
in orchards when there is a great
depth of snow. The snow should be
trodden down about the trees the first
time it is damp enough to do so, espe-
cially in runs where it drifts, as trees
six or eight inches in diameter at the
collar are often completely girdled in
such situations. Home and Farm.
Plum Pudding. - One pint of
chopped suet. one pint of tart apples,
one pint of raisins, one pint of cur
rants, one-half pint of sugar, one-half
pint of sweet milk, one cup of citron;
beat eight eggs and mix with the
above, and add sufficient flour to make
it stick together; boil three hours in a
cloth bag and serve with sauce. -
Detroit Free Press.
Loaf Cake.-One pound of butter
beaten to cream, two pounds of
sugar rolled fine, three pounds of
sifted -four, six well-beaten eggs, three
teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved in lit
tie hot water, one tablespoonful OF
ground cinnamon, half nutmeg
grated, add one pound of currants we'll
washed and dried one pound of raisins
stoned and cut in two, divided in three
loaves and bake one hour in moderate
oven. Christian Union.
Wheat shorts or middlings is one
of the cheapest foods for swine. a
ration of two-thirds shorts and one
third corn-meal is one of the best
things for finishing off mature hogs.
1t should be fed dry, providing water
in a separate trough. in this way the
hogs will masticate their food most
thoroughly and digest more of it than
they would if it was fed wet. Shorts
and sweet skim milk until the pigs are
four or five months old is excellent
feed, one-third corn-meal being added
later to put on flesh and fat Home
and Farm.
The garden needs more manure.
This fact should always be kept in
mind, and every bit of waste that is
likely to have any value, mechanical
OF otherwise, as manure, should be
added to the heap. 1t is wonderful
what lot of manure may be got to-
gether by those who keep this always
before them. Every body, of course,
should keep pigs to eat up the waste
vegetables, and with the manure from
the pig-stye should be blended all the
other waste matters of the garden and
house.--N. Y Observer.
-Whit-Pot. - From one quart of
milk save out q teacupful, heat the re-
mainder to the boiling point; into the
cold milk stir two heaped tablespoon
fuls of Indian meal and two heaped
tablespoonful of sifted flour; stir this,
after being evenly mixed in the cold
milk, into the boiling milk. have ready
to add at the same time two eggs we'll
beaten and two-thirds of cup of
molasses Cor 'sweeten to taste"), Boil
ten minutes and add teaspoonful of
salt and serve hot, and you will not
wonder that 1.-The boys" always relished
mothers glib 60 down" - Good
Cheer.